State of India's Democracy

Sumit Ganguly is Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations and a professor of political science at Indiana University. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of fourteen books on South Asian politics and is currently at work on a new book, India since 1980. Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. They serve as codirectors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and coeditors of the Journal of Democracy.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: PoliticsChapter 1. Parties and the Party System, 1947–2006Chapter 2. Reading the Election ResultsChapter 3. Democracy and Ethnic ConflictChapter 4. Caste and the Rise of Marginalized GroupsPart II: The StateChapter 5. Federalism's SuccessChapter 6. The Rise of Judicial SovereigntyChapter 7. Police Agencies and Coercive PowerPart III: SocietyChapter 8. The Role of Civil SocietyChapter 9. Civil Society versus CorruptionChapter 10. Breaking News: The Media RevolutionPart IV: The EconomyChapter 11. Economic Growth and Political Accommodation Chapter 12. The State of the StatesIndex

This excellent collection of essays will be of great interest to India specialists and scholars concerned with democratic development. Choice 2008 This work... provide[s] an accessible and authoritative framework for debate on the country's future. -- William Crawley Asian Affairs 2009